60NYT > Jeff Gettytopics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/jeff_getty/index.html?rss=1News about Jeff Getty, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.Copyright 2014 The New York Times Companyen-usSun 02 Aug 2015 17:15:41 -0400http://static01.nyt.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gifNYThttp://www.nytimes.comJeff Getty, 49, AIDS Activist Who Received Baboon Cells, Is Deadhttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/health/16getty.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssIn 1995, Jeff Getty became the first person to receive a bone marrow cell transfusion from one species to another.By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSMon, 16 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/health/16getty.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssStill Living With AIDS, and Endless Jokes About Bananashttp://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/13/science/conversation-with-jeff-getty-still-living-with-aids-endless-jokes-about-bananas.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssWhen one first meets Jeff Getty, 41, at his Japanese-style loft in Oakland, Calif., it is hard to think of him as a man who has lived with H.I.V. and AIDS for 18 years. Mr. Getty gives off an air of vitality. His eyes gleam; he is muscular,...By CLAUDIA DREIFUSTue, 13 Oct 1998 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/13/science/conversation-with-jeff-getty-still-living-with-aids-endless-jokes-about-bananas.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssBaboon-Cell Transplant Failed, but AIDS Patient Is Improvedhttp://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/16/us/baboon-cell-transplant-failed-but-aids-patient-is-improved.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssIn the year since an AIDS patient in San Francisco received an experimental transplant of baboon bone marrow, he has gained weight and strength and remained free of severe infections, even though the transplant did not take. Despite intensive...By LAWRENCE K. ALTMANMon, 16 Dec 1996 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/16/us/baboon-cell-transplant-failed-but-aids-patient-is-improved.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssBaboon Cells Fail to Thrive, But AIDS Patient Improveshttp://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/09/us/baboon-cells-fail-to-thrive-but-aids-patient-improves.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssPreliminary tests show that few, if any, baboon bone marrow cells have grown and functioned after being transplanted into a 38-year-old man with severe AIDS, his doctors said yesterday. But the doctors said in interviews that they were...By LAWRENCE K. ALTMANFri, 09 Feb 1996 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/09/us/baboon-cells-fail-to-thrive-but-aids-patient-improves.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssCross-Species Transplants Raise Concerns About Human Safetyhttp://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/09/science/cross-species-transplants-raise-concerns-about-human-safety.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssNOW that Jeff Getty has gone home from the San Francisco hospital where he received an experimental transplant of baboon bone marrow, and other cross-species transplants are pending elsewhere, two questions arise: Will animal viruses carried in...By LAWRENCE K. ALTMANTue, 09 Jan 1996 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/09/science/cross-species-transplants-raise-concerns-about-human-safety.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssTransplant: Urgent Step or Step Off the Edge?http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/09/science/transplant-urgent-step-or-step-off-the-edge.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssTHE transplant last month of bone marrow from a baboon into a 38-year-old man who is dying of AIDS has again raised the old question of whether desperate times call for desperate remedies. At stake is the tension between dying patients' calls...By GINA KOLATATue, 09 Jan 1996 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/09/science/transplant-urgent-step-or-step-off-the-edge.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssHospital to Release Patient Who Received Baboon Cellshttp://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/04/us/hospital-to-release-patient-who-received-baboon-cells.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssThe man who received a highly risky experimental bone marrow transplant from a baboon three weeks ago is expected to be discharged from a hospital in San Francisco today, his doctors said. But they said it was too soon to know whether the...By LAWRENCE K. ALTMANThu, 04 Jan 1996 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/04/us/hospital-to-release-patient-who-received-baboon-cells.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssAIDS Baboon Experiment Is Bad Sciencehttp://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/25/opinion/l-aids-baboon-experiment-is-bad-science-036056.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssTo the Editor: No one has hope for the survival of Jeff Getty, the AIDS patient who received the baboon bone marrow transplant (front page, Dec. 15): not the patient himself, not his doctors, not the scientists involved, and certainly not his...Mon, 25 Dec 1995 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/25/opinion/l-aids-baboon-experiment-is-bad-science-036056.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssWhen Doctors and Patients Decide To Test the Far Limits of Treatmenthttp://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/19/science/doctor-s-world-when-doctors-patients-decide-test-far-limits-treatment.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssWhy do researchers and willing patients test the boundaries of medical science when they are told by friendly and sometimes hostile critics that the risks are so daunting that the experiments are doomed to failure? Part of the answer may be...By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.DTue, 19 Dec 1995 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/19/science/doctor-s-world-when-doctors-patients-decide-test-far-limits-treatment.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssMan Who Got Baboon Cells Is Doing Well, Doctors Sayhttp://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/18/us/man-who-got-baboon-cells-is-doing-well-doctors-say.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssJeff Getty, the 38-year-old man who received a baboon bone marrow transplant last Thursday in a risky experiment to battle AIDS, was "doing very well" today, his doctors said. Mr. Getty shared a pizza with his family on Saturday night and...By LAWRENCE K. ALTMANMon, 18 Dec 1995 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/18/us/man-who-got-baboon-cells-is-doing-well-doctors-say.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss